I wonder if Rippa will allow my original title to live? Yeah, sometimes he changes the wording around a little. He says it helps with SEO and shit, since this is a blog and since blogs are also a business, he has to take this into consideration. Of course the words do matter, but the [...]

Sometimes I neglect to write simply because I realize that my writing is driven by more passion then it is by academia. I am just as capable of writing a coherent sentence and balancing an argument with the pro and con of an issue as anyone else with an Undergraduate Degree but sometimes I just [...]

Yes, that’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask. Being a kid from the Caribbean where there’s no Thanksgiving  holiday, or traditions, I’ve always wanted to know whether white folks were known to partake of chitlins for Thanksgiving, or whether that was just a black thing? I’ve been in many homes across the country over [...]

Don’t congratulate me on that nifty headline either, those words aren’t mine, rather they belong to Herman Cain where he was quoted at a recent appearance at the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) convention “Defending the American Dream only days ago. Now if that ain’t some coon shit! You’re probably wondering how did the well spoken corporate [...]

I am one of ‘those people’.….you know the type. When beliggerent little brown folks scatter about and behave a bit extra I can’t help but to turn my nose up. Now, please believe, I am not one sided with my side-eye, I’ll quickly funk face a rude, loud White woman as quickly as I will check [...]

The city streets are filled with garbage and there is no news coverage. The politicians are resigning one by one rather than involve themselves in something they think is a lose lose vote and only the most delicate of civil service employees are upholding their duties with the blessing of the union brotherhood. I was [...]

Sometimes I write these articles with my tongue literally lodged in the side of my mouth because what I may write here as news isn’t news to some people. Living as a woman of color in a world in which WEB Du Boise described as a ‘double consciousness’ I am well aware of the dual perception of the [...]

Generally when I read about hate crimes I get angry. But this time, after reading the story of what happened to Elree Jones, I was saddened. Jones who is Black, was attacked by a 50-year-old knife-wielding Mark Neal, who is white, at a Lafayette, Indiana convenience store. All appearances indicate the motive was race. This is what the victim is [...]

I know revelry. I know booty bouncing to NOLA music during Mardi Gras. I know Crop Over fest with the Bajans who are unbleached and down-to-earth. Junkanoo in Bahamas. Shit, I’ve even partied in the Akara festival in Nigeria. And at all of them I danced until I almost passed out. However, running to prevent [...]

This story isn’t that fresh and I think I may have put it on my mental back burner on purpose because things like this makes my blood boil. Ill behaving humans is nothing new when it comes to the treatment of the more delicate of our citizens, however, I’m not even sure what the basis [...]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.  – Marianne Williamson, from: A Return to Love Every day, every waking moment, you desire to do many things, from hugging your lover to earning [...]